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Prince apples’ purple reign
Would you believe there’s an apple called the Purple Prince? A firm flavoursome apple with “purple skin” and “crisp white flesh” developed by Tibetan growers…
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Hammered robbers target bottle shops
Robbers armed with hammers have held up liquor stores in Keysborough and Mulgrave. Police believe the two robberies that happened within 30 minutes on Saturday…
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Man stabbed in street brawl
A man was seriously wounded during a brawl involving up to 15 males near Noble Park station on Sunday 31 March. The victim in his…
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Police pounce on cannabis crop-houses
A police operation has seized more than 1000 cannabis plants from crop-houses in Greater Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia. As part of Operation Bagration, police from…
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Arsonists target shed and bungalow
Greater Dandenong CIU detectives are investigating suspicious fires at a shed and a bungalow. Two suspect males fled from a blaze that started in a…
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Three injured in restaurant brawl
Two females and a male have been injured during a brawl outside a Burmese restaurant in Springvale. A verbal argument between three males and two…
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Suspicious fire destroys pool hall
Police are investigating a suspicious fire that gutted a popular pool-hall building in Round Tower Road, Dandenong South. More than 50 CFA and MFB fire-fighters…
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Freeway car-jacker at large
A driver has been violently carjacked while queued on a Monash Freeway on-ramp in Dandenong. Police say that a man driving a silver vehicle crashed…
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Lifelong Keysborough mates rejoice at $2.2 m Tatts win
A private syndicate of ‘lifelong mates’ from Keysborough are rejoicing today after their long-running syndicate scored a division one win in the weekend’s TattsLotto draw.…
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Work starts on central park
Work has begun on a new community sports court with CCTV and lighting in central Dandenong. Replacing the temporary Pop-Up Park near Dandenong railway station,…
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Street sex scourge
Residents in ‘inner’ Dandenong West are linking a prevalence of street sex workers, drug dealers and menacing perverts to large numbers of “seemingly unregulated” rooming…
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Eye-sore squats under the radar
You wonder what it will take for the clean-up of a long-standing squatter-house in Scott Street Dandenong. Star News believes that the three-unit eye-sore has…